It’s down
to the wire in classes now. All of this nice weather has given me spring fever
and it’s so much more appealing to enjoy it instead of doing class work. Because I’ve been
choosing to have fun lately instead of balance school and fun, I am currently
paying for it. I’m stressed out even more than an average student should be
around this time in the semester but I know that in these next two weeks that
I’m going to have to suck it up and get it done. We’ve been talking about
everything that needs to be done to get an A in English, which includes making
a PowerPoint on one of our papers. We’ve also been discussing our portfolio,
which I will be trying my hardest to get put together within the next week. On
Wednesday we had to write an in-class essay about our contribution to our
individual learning and the learning of our other classmates. I will admit that
this semester I have not been up to my usual student standards. College is a
whole different world from high school and it is so much easier to slack off,
which makes it also so much easier to get behind. On Friday, those of us who signed up for an A have to present a PowerPoint for the Student Expo in the library. It's Thursday night and I'm just now making mine, oops. It’s time for me to get all
of my stuff together and cram until I can’t think straight. May the curve be
ever in your favor as this semester comes to an end.
Blog schmlog~
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
All Time Low concert: Out of class activity
For my
second out of class activity I went to Richmond to see one of my favorite bands
perform for at least the fifth time since I started listening to them back in
2009. I will admit that I skipped Sweeney’s class so that I could get a head
start on all the errands I had to run before leaving for Richmond. Sorry
Sweeney! When I left the Richard Bland College campus that day I had to go pick
up my check from Shoe Carnival because even after over two years of working
there, I have yet to sign up for direct deposit. I also squeezed a visit to
Verizon into my busy schedule because the week before spring break I dropped
and cracked my iPhone :( According to one of the sales associates there,
because I cracked the screen moisture is able to get into the crack and mess up
the way my phone works, which explains why my phone will randomly not send and
receive texts. I have insurance on my phone but have been too broke recently to
pay the money to get a new one so for now I’m just dealing with a broken phone.
Once my best friend got out of school, we were off to Richmond. We got there
around 4 o’clock and decided to go eat an early dinner at Galaxy Diner. After
dinner we drove over to The National where the concert was being held. Once the
concert started, we patiently waited for the other bands whom we were not at
all familiar with to finish their performances. Finally when All Time Low took
the stage the crowd went wild. They played an absolutely amazing set for a sold
out show. After the show ended Danielle and I made our way to McDonald’s for a
late night snack. We ended up getting home around three in the morning, and
after such a long day I had never been happier to lay in my bed.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
The struggle is real
Monday’s are never good, especially when it’s
the first day back to classes after spring break, and ESPECIALLY when the
weather sucks! With those crappy factors making Monday worse than it usually
is, all I could think was “CHOO CHOO! All aboard the struggle bus”! I don’t
know how I managed to roll out of bed that morning but I made it happen. As the
day went on it was just a blur to me and I was overly excited to be finished
after English that day. The Rape of the
Lock was yet another weird story that we had to discuss on Wednesday.
Sweeney helped us out by helping us pick out a ton of words that went along
with the story and putting them all up on the board. After we finished doing
that we picked our own groups for once and had to answer a question about the
story. All of the groups answered their question and then shared their answers
with the other groups. Sweeney cancelled class on Friday because a family issue
came up and asked us to watch J.K. Rowling’s Ted Talk about failure in life,
but also the fear of it in life, writing and education.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Spring break
The beach is a typical spring break vacation destination but
I prefer to spend my spring break about 15 minutes away from the nearest beach
in Wilmington, North Carolina. My dad’s side of the family lives in North
Carolina and I have always referred to it as my second home. Ever since I was
younger, my cousin and I have been inseparable regardless of our four year age
difference. She shares a house with two other roommates, five dogs and a cat.
As most girls do, we shopped on a few different occasions. We both played
softball growing up so we decided to reconnect with our past and played around
one night. Even though it was my spring break, it was not hers so while she was
in class I used my time wisely and worked on biology homework. Downtown
Wilmington is one of my favorite places in Wilmington itself. There’s a bunch
of cute little boutiques and it’s the perfect place to people watch on a nice
sunny day. While my cousin and I were there, we got sushi for lunch and people
watched by the Cape Fear River. Later on that day we got ice cream from my new
favorite ice cream shop, it’s called Kilwins and it was absolutely fantastic.
As my week with my cousin ended I was sad to say “see ya later” because she
will be making a trip to Virginia the week after we get out of school for
summer vacation!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Baseball weekend: Out of class activity
As the
lovely month of March began it brought us closer and closer to a spring break
that many of us students so desperately needed. During that first weekend, I
attended a few baseball games that made me long for spring break even more. A
week or so ago, I received a “Guess what” text from a boy that I had dated over
the summer. He plays college baseball up in the Washington D.C. area and
because of all the recent snowy and messy weather that we had been
experiencing, his games that weekend had been moved to a different location. It
really is a small world and that weekend was a perfect example to proven it because
his baseball games had been moved to the baseball stadium in Colonial Heights.
It had been about eight months since we had last seen each other and I had
always wanted to go see one of his baseball games, so that’s what I did with my
weekend. He pitched the game on Saturday night as I froze in the bleachers. The
weather was a lot nicer on Sunday morning and the team also pulled out a win in
that first game. I had to leave before their second game began because I had to
work. I was really glad that I got to see him play and being able to use his
baseball games as one of my out of class activities was just a plus!
Friday, February 28, 2014
Ugh
Before the
seventh week of class even began I was ready for it to be over and done with.
Monday’s class was cancelled because Sweeney came down with a stomach bug. I
was unaware of that until I actually showed up to the class and checked my
email. Speaking of our email server, I think that the Outlook app for iPhones
sucks. Half of the time it takes forever to load once I open it up and
sometimes it says that I need an update, which I assume is why I was not
notified of Sweeney’s email. But nonetheless, I was still glad to find out that
I had one less class to attend on the worst day of the week. During the middle
of the week, we finally finished watching The
Glass Menagerie which stayed true to Sweeney’s story choices with its
obvious weirdness. Even though it was a quirky movie, I was sad to see it end
because I enjoy watching movies in class because it’s like a mini break from
school. Sweeney had arranged for us to play Jeopardy on Friday, and it was once
again like we had a little break. He grouped us off, like he always does, with
people that we aren’t fully familiar with. When it was finally time to play, it
shortly became apparent to Sweeney that very few of the students had been
keeping up with the book as well as we should have been. He eventually
dismissed us from class because we clearly weren’t doing the best job of
participating.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Happy Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is today and the lack of class
this week was quite the early V Day present! Sweeney was sick on Monday so
class was cancelled, but I didn’t know that until I got there and checked the
email. Even though I still showed up to class I wasn’t too bummed out because I
had been at school since around nine that morning. Wednesday was a rough draft
day so Sweeney separated the class into groups so that we could talk about our
papers and help each other out. I had forgotten to print out my rough draft so
I talked about what I had written my paper on and how I had struggled with it.
When I got home that day I decided to work on my paper some more but then I
ended up changing my paper completely. The winter weather that we’ve been
experiencing this year hit us again on Wednesday night, so much that Thursday
classes were quickly cancelled. Slushy snow is the worst, so I was rather
disappointed with the rainy weather on Thursday. With the help of the cold
temperatures, the rain eventually turned to snow and class was cancelled again
for Friday! I was so excited to have yet another day off from school.
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